2024
First measurement of a nuclear recoil signal from solar neutrinos with XENONnT
July 16, 2024
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Mark Chantell Recognized in UChicago Science as Art Contest
May 16, 2024
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Bonnie Fleming elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 29, 2024
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Aleksandra Walczak wins prestigious Silver Medal from CNRS
March 19, 2024
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Surprisingly simple model explains how brain cells organize and connect
February 14, 2024
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Scientists from UChicago, Harvard, and Yale propose a self-organizing model of connectivity that applies across a wide range of organisms and potentially other types of networks as well.
Story by Matt Wood, Assistant Director of Communications, Biological Sciences Division
2023
Charles Mark Lewis won the 2024 Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics
December 21, 2023
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Citation: "For the development of techniques expanding the low-energy reach of new particle detector technologies, with applications in neutrino physics, dark matter searches, and the study of charged-lepton flavor violating modes of muon decay."
Dr. Katrina Miller awarded National Academies Award for Science Communications
November 15, 2023
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Recent graduate Katrina Miller currently writes for the NYTimes.
Takumi Matsuzawa Featured in Nature Physics
August 15, 2023
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Nature Physics journal features a cover image by Physics student Takumi Matsuzawa of IrvineLab.
Volume 19 Issue 8, August 2023
Professor Zoe Yan named 2023 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists laureate
August 10, 2023
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Biophysicists from the Department of Physics and James Franck Institute Make Discovery
July 21, 2023
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John B. Goodenough, Nobel-winning creator of the lithium-ion battery, dies at 100
June 27, 2023
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Save the date, July 14, 2023, for the APS Historic Site Dedication to honor Stagg Field and Pile A
June 22, 2023
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Symposium in Honor of John Schiffer, July 10-11, 2023
May 3, 2023
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Professor Cordova featured in Quanta article: A New Kind of Symmetry Shakes Up Physics
April 19, 2023
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Congratulations to University of Chicago Alumnus Kaeli Hughes on winning the APS DAP dissertation prize!
April 19, 2023
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